Upcoming Concerts
Duruflé REQUIEM
and Other Works for Chorus and Organ
Friday, May 2, 2025, at 7:30 PM
This winter, the Riverside Choral Society extends the warmest welcome to Dr. John Wilson, our new director. Dr. Wilson, who holds degrees from both Westminster Choir College and Rutgers University, is the current director of choral activities at SUNY New Paltz (where he is an Assistant Professor) and director of the Choral Art Society of New Jersey. Learn more about Dr. John Wilson.
This spring, Dr. Wilson will conduct his RCS inaugural at the renowned Romanesque Church of St. Francis Xavier. In a concert that will be highlighted by a performance of Duruflé’s magical, meditative, and plainchant-based Requiem, the program will also include:
Evening Hymn – Henry Balfour Gardiner
Lord, Thou Hast Been Our Refuge – Ralph Vaughan Williams
Magnificat – John Wilson
The Church of St. Xavier,
46 West 16th St, NYC
Organist David Enlow
David Enlow is a “commanding” organist (The New Yorker), conductor, and teacher based in New York, who is active in North America and Europe. David is Music Director of Park Avenue Synagogue, Organist & Choir Master of the Church of the Resurrection, and Assistant Conductor, Organist, and Repetiteur to the Clarion Music Society.
His solo recordings on the Pro Organo label include Pater Seraphicus, the complete major organ works of César Franck; Piano à l’Orgue, an album of piano transcriptions; and Bach on Park Avenue, recorded on the Mander organ at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York.
David has taught church music, improvisation, and organ repertoire classes for local, regional, and national events of the American Guild of Organists (AGO), the Royal Canadian College of Organists, and at the Juilliard School, from which he received two degrees. David also received the Fellowship diploma, with both prizes for highest marks, from the AGO; this resulted in his joining the committee on professional certification, which sets the standards for national organist examinations and grades them. David then served two terms as Dean of the New York City Chapter of the Guild.
Photograph by ShAy Frey
Photograph by ShAy Frey
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